“The St. John River Entering the Atlantic Ocean” painted by Hermann Herzog is in American art as the most ascetically illustrative painting inspired by the coast of Florida. Although this German-American artist settled in Pennsylvania, he primarily painted landscapes inspired by the areas he visited. He traveled and painted throughout Florida, Maine, California, and the northeastern coastal portion of the country. Hermann Ottomar Herzog was a prominent artist born in Bremen, Germany, in 1832. He was known primarily for his magnificent landscapes. While living in Germany he entered the Düsseldorf Academy at the age of seventeen. Herzog, painted in several countries on the European continent, until his arrival in America in 1869. His early commercial successes in Europe secured him clients among the European nobility, among his most famous clients were Queen Victoria and Grand Duke Alexander of Russia. In 1860, Herzog settled permanently near Philadelphia, painted through the Western states, arriving in California in 1873. From this trip he painted one of his masterpieces, a series of oil canvases inspired by Yosemite Valley. It was "Sentinel Rock" this collection that earned him a prize at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. He is considered by many to be part of the Hudson River School, although his art is more realistic and less dramatic than the works of his colleagues Frederick Edwin Church or Albert Bierstadt. Herzog, created more than 1,000 paintings, among the most recognized are, "Women in a Tropical Setting", "Landscape with a She-Bear and Her Cub", "Sentinel Rock", "Brandywine River Museum" and "The River St. Johns entering the Atlantic Ocean." He is one of the few artists who did not depend on t...... middle of paper ......dinner with the atmosphere of the tropical ocean. To inspire visualization of the idyllic fields of Florida, this canvas is sized to produce that impression of your presence in the coast. With a sense of solitude accompanied by the magic of discovering a beautiful romantic peace, this canvas gives you the desire to be there. The scene makes you feel like you have found that special place where you want to stay for the rest of your life in harmony with nature. It is easy to identify in this painting how the different and unreceptive subtropical locations at the beginning of Florida define the subjective state of being. In this art he totally adheres to one of the most delightful characterizations of Romanticism, he puts his heart and mind together to idealize the authenticity of the wild nature in the scene according to what the artist deemed relevant to present.